On Mar 22, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > Hello, > > I have just bought a gnupg smartcard, copied my subkeys to it, and it works. > I > have been using a key on several computers. Now I want the other systems to > use the smartcard, too, so that I can delete the private keys there. The > content of the smartcard is shown by --card-status and I could even use the > authentication key for an SSH connection. > > For SSH connections gpg-agent looks at tha smartcard by default but it does > not for normal key lookup. I just get an error message (something like "no > private key found") if I delete the private keys. > > Is there an "official" way to tell gpg to use the smartcard? Anything except > copying the keys to the card again (executing keytocard on all systems)?
Yes. If I understand what you are asking, the easiest way to do this is to delete the secret key on those systems, then insert the card, and do a 'gpg --card-status'. That recreates the secret key stub so GPG knows to look at the card for that key. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users